Heart and Vascular Care

Whether you need lifesaving care for a heart attack or stroke, ongoing care for a condition such as coronary artery disease, heart failure or high blood pressure, you can get complete heart and vascular care at University of Maryland Capital Region Health.

That means you’ll receive care from heart care professionals who are trained at one of the nation’s best cardiac surgery programs.

The University of Maryland heart surgeons care for more heart surgery patients than any other program in Maryland.

Our quality earned us special accreditation by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care as a Chest Pain Center with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) for our heart attack care.

Our cardiac surgery program has been ranked among the top 10 percent of programs nationally. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons recognized us for exceptional clinical performance for coronary artery bypass surgery for analysis of data covering reporting periods from January 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.

We received Primary Stroke Center certification from The Joint Commission for our stroke care expertise.

Dialysis access: When your kidneys don’t work properly, dialysis performs the function of the kidneys using a machine. Your blood is circulated through the machine to clear out waste and excess fluid, then returned to your body. Vascular surgeons make a surgically created vein where your blood is removed and returned during dialysis.

Thrombolysis: Our vascular experts use special medicines (also called thrombolytic therapy) to dissolve blood clots, including emergency treatment for clots that block blood supply to the brain, heart and lungs.

Venous disease treatment: We offer the latest treatments to manage conditions that affect the blood vessels in your legs, such as deep vein thrombosis (DVT), leg pain due to plaque buildup (claudication), spider and varicose veins, and more.